Windows Tip: Tools for testing for bad memory

Mitch Tulloch, ITworld.com

I recently upgraded memory in half a dozen of our office systems, and of course I had problems: two of the machines wouldn't boot afterward. I ran some memory tests on them but without results. So I ended up following the Monte Carlo approach, which in my case involved randomly swapping memory between the two machines to see what happens. Eventually I got both of them working, but it got me wondering if there are better tools available for testing memory integrity. ...continue reading 'Tools for testing for bad memory'